a minor p.s. to my notes, I forgot this line for the mgetty login.conf:
/AutoPPP/ - -/etc/ppp/ppp-pap-dialup
which is crucial to making this work. Also, you may have to edit
/etc/passwd manually to get it to accept a shell not listed in
/etc/shells.
Otherwise, I reinstalled 5.3
With many thanks to the folks who helped, I am happy to announce that I
write this message from my own dialup connection to my own FreeBSD
machine!
Here the relevant configuration items. I'm using a standard 5.3
GENERIC kernel and my modem (an external serial port modem) is on sio0:
Most
Hello folks ,
i installed poptop to make a pptp server . I'm trying to connect from
a win2k workstation but with no luck ... and i get this messages ..
Dec 16 13:41:57 madalina ppp[960]: Phase: Using interface: tun0
Dec 16 13:41:57 madalina ppp[960]: Phase: deflink: Created in closed